Milestones

By Unmesh Kher; Nadia Mustafa; Aatish Taseer

DIED. PIERRE CHARLES, 49, Prime Minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica; apparently of a heart attack; in Dominica. A former teacher who became the country's longest-serving legislator and a critic of U.S. policy in the Caribbean, he was appointed head of state in 2000 after his predecessor died, also of a heart attack.

DIED. PATRICK MILLER, 51, pioneer of electronic and industrial music and leader of the 1980s experimental "anti-music" rock group Minimal Man; in Los Angeles. He bridged punk and industrial music with aggressive blasts of noise and electronic effects in a band whose name was inspired by people living in the ghettos of San Francisco--a minimal man being someone with "everything against him."

DIED. BRIAN GIBSON, 59, British film and television director; of bone cancer; in London. He guided Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne to Academy Award nominations in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It, about Ike and Tina Turner, and was responsible for such acclaimed TV movies as Dennis Potter's 1979 BBC film Blue Remembered Hills and the 1991 biopic The Josephine Baker Story.

DIED. TUG MCGRAW, 59, intensely competitive left-hander whose relief-pitching prowess helped the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies capture World Series championships; of brain cancer; in Nashville. A crowd favorite known for his boyish enthusiasm, he coined the Mets' battle cry "You gotta believe!" during the 1973 National League pennant race. After notching 180 saves in a 20-year career, he went on to work as a TV sportscaster and wrote three children's books.

DIED. INGRID THULIN, 77, severe, worldly Swedish actress, who lent her grave glamour to eight Ingmar Bergman films; of cancer; in Stockholm. The cool blond projected a knowing pessimism in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Magician, desperate longing in Winter Light and The Silence, and a mutilating self-hatred in Cries and Whispers. Though her one Hollywood film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was a flop, she shone as a soulful socialist in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie and as a Nazi-era matriarch in Luchino Visconti's The Damned.

DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, ubiquitous fashion photographer best known for 30 years' worth of provocative Cosmopolitan magazine covers; in New York City. During his teenage years in Manhattan, he served as an apprentice to photographers at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and was soon shooting photos for those and other prestige magazines. His work ranged from flower studies to portraits of such celebrities as Sting, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. In 1981 he was diagnosed with manic depression but credited his manic highs for much of his artistic creativity.

DIED. JOHN TOLAND, 91, historian; in Connecticut. His account of the war in the Pacific, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945, was told primarily from the Japanese point of view and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.